Robin Gwen Agarwal was a bug-and-tidepool kid who went astray and graduated with a liberal arts degree. In the last decade, she has returned to her childhood passions, photographing and writing about nudibranchs and other natural marvels. She is co-editor of the California Sea Slugs Guide on iNaturalist, where she is a curator with more than 54,000 geotagged observations. Find out more at iNaturalist
Oodles of nudibranchs showed up in Lake Merritt after the harmful algal bloom of August 2022. These sea slugs appeared in record breaking numbers, taking Oakland's beloved tidal lagoon by...
San Francisco Bay ropes, docks and pilings provide a home for abundant, colorful marine life.
“The time is ripe for biologists to unravel the diversity, ecology, and natural history of land flatworms,” one scientist writes
Entomologists thought the Brazilian bee Plebeia emerina had disappeared in California in the 1950s. But two colonies were rediscovered in Palo Alto in 2013, and now a four-year-old has found...
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